I think its good especially if you are on an M1 generation. This is one of those releases with loads of fixes and speedups and not a whole lot of anything else

Who promised it?

I find it so strange when someone comments something like this.

Nobody thinks this is okay or that Simon should have to play those games. The point of the reply was that while this is stupid, the solution is trivial.

I’m genuinely very curious what the point of comments like this is. I am not joking, I want to understand.

I see examples like it 50 times a week in random places, and nobody walks me through their mental state to help me understand what they thought the point was.

I'm not sure what the situation is here, but on many sites making alt account to avoid bans can result in a lifetime ban. A high profile figure who's been banned from a service advertising that they still have access to it might be a risk.

Also, these companies (or data brokers) likely share ban and alt account lists, ban evading could hurt the reputation of all your accounts.

These are some pragmatic reasons not to evade bans.

Hackernews users are not immune to developing parasocial relationships with strangers on the internet.

The fawning that some users do over others because of their careers is really unbecoming.

I wish the kind of people who did this stuff would realize that there are only two possibilities here -- the person they're saying it to cringes a little bit time they hear it because they're a normal person or they smile a bit inside because they're mildly narcissistic and therefore not worthy of the incessant praise.

The best thing you can do for everyone involved is to treat people normally and not elevate people to celebrity status.

I wonder how a blackout on usernames for a day or so after they're posted would shape conversation here.

This is awesome, thanks for sharing

I would bet my trillion-dollar company on it because I understand how RAM works.

If you use NixOS, you don’t need to do any of that anymore. A single command in the CLI, and you have everything I do.

I did mention that in my case I had the 4080, but you do not need the 4080 whatsoever. You can run the same model with less context on a single £200 V100 or with the same amount of context on two of these.

Well I did in fact meaningfully combined them without an issue, that was the whole point of the blogpost.

Yes but it creates a bottleneck that negates the benefit of using multiple cards that way. Look into it. Cheers

Well it doesn’t matter because the bottleneck here is actually quite small for me. The issue is vram. If anything the bottleneck is my 4080.

Gotcha, I am not saying your setup is inherently wrong or useless. I am glad it works for your use cases. Godspeed

I think its a very fair thing you have flagged!

Building computers is very easy. I would suggest watching a YouTube video to get the general gist, and then once you buy the parts, just Google for whatever doesn’t go well.

I built my first Pentium 4 one when I was like six, so I’m sure someone much older that’s into tech can do it without an issue.

There are also tons of Discord communities that are willing to help you live if you encounter any issues.

I have written the blog post. I know empirically that I have used 0% AI while writing it. I also know LLM detectors are total BS and they don't really work. I have tried a couple on this exact blog post, and QuillBot, for example, gave me 0% AI detected on it.

I have then used a blog post of mine from 2021. QuillBot gave me 8%...

The King James version of the Bible came out at almost 100% AI generated a while ago. It was the HN front page.

Stop thinking that if someone writes in a way that is fun or looks like what you would think an AI writes, then it is AI generated. Loads of the time it is, but sometimes it's not, and it really hurts those like me.

> I have tried a couple on this exact blog post, and QuillBot, for example, gave me 0% AI detected on it.

Don't use Quillbot; not sure why, but their model is reluctant to classify anything as AI generated. I ran into this when proof-reading a students Phd - ChatGPT, Gemini, CLaude (and others) all agreed it was AI generated, but Quillbot said it wasn't.

So you are the AI?

I mean, seriously, which human says "the compute"?